AT&T customers reasonably expect that their communications are private and have long trusted AT&T to follow the law and protect their privacy.

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It's simply a very bad idea for privacy and for free speech for the government to design any technology, much less the Internet, to be surveillance-friendly.

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These laws were written some time ago. They were careful in some places and not in others.

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One snap shot of me walking down the street from a camera above, sure that's not really an invasion of privacy, but when you're able to connect the dots of my entire routine throughout the day, that's another story. Our laws haven't kept up with that, and yet technology is creating those problems for us.

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I think the bottom line is that anybody that does disclosures of security vulnerabilities has to be very careful (so as to) not be accused of being a hacker. The computer trespass laws are very, very tricky.

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This may be appropriate for cattle, pets or packages, but for humans it is a very different issue.

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There is a difference between talking to your kids and sniffing your kids.

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